Mahasweta Devi

Mahasweta Devi

Mahasweta Devi passed away on July 28 at the age of 90, having spent most of her life writing with a raw passion about the “invisible” Indians. Here is a link to the obituary carried by the Economist. The New York Times carried one as well. Mahasweta’s stories were translated from Bengali into English by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Two terrific women.